I had a job that was kind of monotonous, but it allowed me to work sitting down for once. I was in a room with a bunch of older women and one 'older than me' man. The job was repetitious and was all 'hands and fingers' type of work , so I was wearing headphones and a CD player blasting Hard Rock music into my head and I could mentally disconnect and be someplace else...such as in my foundry or on a canoe trip, without going there physically. The old women were…

Have you served in the Far East? Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand etc.? Have you made a Westpac deployment? Vietnam? Join your buddies at 'The Yokosuka Sailor Group' on Navy Vets. Come alongside shipmates.

From the time I enlisted to the day I left,I realized that I am pretty low key in terms of normalcy or should I say AB-normalcy.The people we meet that we serve with,the things they have done and still do astounds me to tears of laughter,and sometimes frightful shock,lol. While stationed in the galley at RTC Orlando in 83,we had to come to the galley 3 hours early that day for a special command arriving to be fed and it was a huge number of personnel arriving so we had to be ready for…

The MOLDER rating in the United States Navy is one of not so long a history, but it is a good and proud rating, to be sure.

Day one, lesson one in Molder A School was about SAND. A single grain of sand. We learned about what it was made out of, about its shape and what kinds of things can be mixed with it to make it do so many wonderful things. SAND is a Molders most important tool.